PLEASE NOTE THAT AFTER FRIDAY 18 JANUARY, NEW REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE PRINTED IN THE FINAL PARTICIPANTS LIST.

ThemeMaking Things Happen

Target GroupA meeting by invitation only, for those with chief executive (top management) responsibility and authority in EFMD member business schools and centres. Directors of non-member schools can be invited at the discretion of the organisers.

EFMD Quality Services Annual Meeting - PlenaryThe EFMD Quality Services (QS) Team will report during this session on the current status and the latest developments of EFMD accreditations, including learnings derived from EQUIS, EPAS and EDAF. Through this session, Deans and Directors will also learn about the future objectives of the EFMD accreditations. Topics of information will be: the Quality Services Portfolio approach, Special Re-accreditation and Ethics, Responsibility & Sustainability.

It should be noted that this is not a standard accreditation seminar; explanations on Standards & Criteria or processes are NOT the main objective of this session.

Michael Osbaldeston, Director, Quality Services, EFMD

Christian Delporte, Associate Director, Quality Services, EFMD

Chris Greensted, Associate Director, Quality Services, EFMD

Ulrich Hommel, Associate Director, Quality Services, EFMD

Roland Van Dierdonck, Associate Director, Quality Services, EFMD

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

EFMD Quality Services Annual Meeting - Five Working GroupsFacilitated by Quality Services StaffFive Working Groups will focus on Managing Diversity in Accreditation with respect to:

Research

Internationalisation

Breadth vs. Defined Norms

It should be noted that this is not a standard information session; Deans and Directors will be invited to participate actively in the discussions through their critical input on the above topics.

12:30 – 13:00

Optional Newcomers’ Session EFMD and its Deans & Directors General steering committee will bring newcomers up to speed with what this EFMD network has been trying to achieve in the last few years. The session will also introduce the different ingredients we use during the meeting and will explain how we reached this recipe. Through this special session, newcomers will get a first opportunity to network with the members of the committee as well as with new participants of the conference.

Plenary I - PanelMaking Things Happen – Future of Business EducationAim: Understanding what the current global situation has changed (or not) for business education and what we should expect for the next five years. What are today’s and tomorrow’s main trends, financial implications, curriculum changes, etc. for the education world?

Siwei Cheng, Dean, Management School of University of China Academy of Sciences, CN

Howard Thomas, Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Business and LKCSB Chair of Strategic Management, Singapore Management University, SG

17:00 – 17:30

Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:45

Working Groups: Series A

A1. Changes and Developments in Undergraduate EducationAim: Five years into the crisis, how has undergraduate education been affected? Has what we are teaching undergraduates students changed? How do business schools manage these programmes taking into consideration today’s changing world?

A3. Risk Management in Higher EducationAim: How to understand/manage the constraints and risks business schools are taking these days when engaging in financial and/or reputational exposures, strongly wanting to compete with others on the market.

A4. 50+20 AgendaAim: Exploring different paths for the future of management education.

Anne Colby, Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Education and co-author of the Carnegie report, "Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education", USA

Derick de Jongh, Director, The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, ZA

Moderated by Per Cramér, Dean, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, SE

A5. E-learning and Distance Education (online)Aim: Should every business school engage? Why have online (long-distance) classes? Is it just a question of financial resources or are there other advantages? etc.

Plenary II – PanelDevelopments Over the Past Five YearsAim: Understanding how schools in different regions of the world have reacted to the global situation; concrete examples to help understand how the situation is in their region today and what they have concretely changed in their school in response to this situation. In other words, to what extent has this situation enabled them to re-think business education?

World Café SessionAim: Offering participants the opportunity to exchange ideas and views with peers about their own experience concerning the effects of the past five years in their region/ in their school. Each and every table should discuss and answer the following question: What has my school changed in the past five years in response to the global development?Don’t miss a great networking opportunity.

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:15

Working Groups: Series B

B1. How to approach the digital generation?Aim: The new generation has a different way of communicating, they use social networks, they think differently, etc. How and what should business schools do to get aligned with this? What has already been done? Best practices.

B2. International PartneringAim: Importance in today’s global context to have cross border reputation sharing, to be part of a wider network, which helps schools position themselves better. Examples and best practices.The QTEM initiative,Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Dean, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, BE

LATE FEE AFTER 12 DECEMBER (payment by credit card ONLY, after 12 DECEMBER)

1245€ FULL members of EFMD

1395€ AFFILIATED members of EFMD

1545€ Non-Members of EFMD

Cancellation Policy Date: 7 January 2013Cancellations must be confirmed in writing. If Momentum, EFMD Conference Secretariat, receives notice of your withdrawal before 7 January 2013, a cancellation administrative fee of 75€ will be charged. Thereafter, we regret that we are unable to refund any fees.

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